Improved wood-horse



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ENOOH WHITTEMORE, OF NORTH PARIS, MAINE.

IMPROVED WOOD-HORSE.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 38,35 l, dated April 28,1863.

To all 'whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ENocH WHITTEMORE, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of North Paris, in the county of Oxford andState of Maine, have invented an Improved WoodHorse for Supporting aStick of Wood while being Sawed; and I do hereby declare the saine to befully described in the following specification, and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a sideelevation, and lig. 3 a vertical section,of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in a combination and arrangement ofa jawed 1ever, or its equivalent, and two treadles, with the wood-horse,the prrpose of the said jawed lever being to hold a st ck of wood rmlyon the wood horse during the process of vsawing such stick.

In the drawings, A denotes a wood-horse of the ordinary construction.Between the two end crosses or frames, a a, of the said woodllorse thereis arranged a broad lever, B, provided with two jaws, b b, each of whichis arranged close against one of the crossed bars of one of the frames.The inner faces of these jaws are provided with teeth or spurs c c c,and thereare similar teeth or spurs, d d d, on the wood-horse, as shownin the drawings.

The fulcrum of the lever B is the upper crossbar, e, which unites thetwo frames of thehorse. The lower arm of the lever rests on the frontlower cross-bar, j', and has an arm or treadle, g, projecting rearwardfrom it, and over the front arm of a lever or treadle, h, whose fulcrumis the other or rear lower cross-bar, i, of the wood-horse. If after astick of wood may have been laid on the crotch of the horse the personwho is to saw the same will press his foot on the rear treadle, he willcause the spurred jaws ot theleverB to beforcedagainst the stick so asto firmly hold it in place and prevent it from rotating under the actionof the saw while cutting into the stick. After the log or stick of woodmay have been sawed the sawyer has only to press his foot on the frontor upper treadle to cause an opposite movement of the lever B, such aswill relieve the spurs of its jaws from the log.

I claim- The combination and arrangement of the jawed lever and itstreadles withthe woodhorse, the same being substantially as and tooperate together as specied. ENOOH WHITTEMORE.

- Witnesses:

JOHN REED,

J osIAH D. WHITTEMORE.

